Ways to prevent Watergate

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Gone Fishin'
How could Watergate of been prevented . If there was no veitnam or J.f.k. death in the 60s could this of prevented watergate?
 
JFK not dying could've prevented it. Nixon still would've been elected in 68, but he might not have been so paranoid.
 
When you say prevent Watergate do you mean that it doesn't happen at all or that it simply isn't discovered? The latter is much easier to do since all it take is a slightly less observant night guard or bribing one of them to look the other way. Alternatively if you don't want it to occur at all have Nixon eke out a win in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, the satisfaction of winning, and being able to throw it in the media's faces, helps him mellow out slightly. He's still going to be Richard Nixon, with all that entails, but he realises that the Democrats don't represent a serious threat to him for 1972 so either doesn't authorise the break-ins and bugging or calls them off much sooner when it's shown they're not providing anything of value.
 
If the 1961 -1969 JFK does not escalate the Vietnam war. Much of Nixon's paranoia stemmed from the fact that he did not have the same respect as a wartime president that Roosevelt did.
 
If the guard doesn't catch them and they get away with it,
do the Plumbers proceed with Liddy's utterly lunatic plan
to firebomb the Brookings Institute?
 
You could have the Democrats hosting their convention somewhere else, anything to change the odds at play, really. But the more thought provoking idea behind this is what would've happened.

Vietnam draft dodgers would be stuck in Canada having no Jimmy Carter (who'd likely not leave George if it's not for Watergate) to pardon them. The 75 Democrats elected into Congress following Wategate wouldn't have been elected in as large of a number as 75.

I'd be very intrigued to read about a full 8-year Nixon Presidency.
 
Have someone in the White House put their foot down.

Tell the James Bond wannabes enough is enough, no shenanigans, no more wild-eyed schemes.

The Plumbers were out of control and RMN did not need the info from the DNC to beat McGovern.
 
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